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December 08, 2008

Nationwide FAA 'DreamLaunch' Tour Kicks Off In Dallas

Aims To Encourage Graduates To Pursue Jobs In Aviation

Some 25 percent of all aviation employees are eligible to retire this year, according to a recent industry study... so there's a world of job opportunities, but potentially not enough young graduates to fill these vital positions.

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European Union Launches SESAR Air Traffic Program

Satellite-Based ATC Expected To Be Operational By 2010

This next story will sound familiar to anyone who's followed the FAA's much-bandied -- but, so far, little-realized -- plans to implement its "NextGen" satellite-based air traffic control system. On Monday, the European Union launched its own version of NextGen, dubbed "SESAR."

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Klyde Morris (12.08.08)

Finally! With O'Brien Gone, CNN Can Get Back To Reporting REAL News...

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (12.08.08)

Aero-Linx!

A tribute to the gone, but not forgotten Concorde. One of the all-time marvels of engineering and truly a thing of beauty, the "Speedbirds" are honored here.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (12.08.08): Solar Wind

Aero-Terms!

Flow of lightweight ions and electrons (which together comprise plasma) thrown from the sun.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (12.08.08)

"The transponder issue is a distraction from the true cause of the accident, which is an air traffic control system that put two airplanes on a collision course for about an hour."

Source: David Rimmer, executive VP of ExcelAire. Brazilian Air Force investigators have ruled the September 29, 2006 mid-air collision of a Gol Airlines 737 and an Embraer Legacy 600 was largely the blame of the two American pilots of the Embraer bizjet operated by ExcelAire, stating they had inadvertently switched their transponder to standby mode. Also contributing to the incident were the actions of four flight controllers who failed to notice the transponder was turned off and failed to warn the pilots of their collision course.

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